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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The latest talks over the mega dam that Ethiopia is building on the Nile River’s main tributary have broken up without an agreement. About 85% of the river’s flow originates from the Blue Nile in Ethiopia though Egypt has received the lion’s share of the Nile’s waters under decades-old agreements dating back to the British colonial …
A bird found in the Utrecht region tested positive for the West Nile virus, the first time the virus has been found in the Netherlands. The system must detect the introduction of a number of exotic viruses, including the West Nile virus, as early as possible," the RIVM said. In previous years, birds with West Nile virus antibodies have been …
